MJJG 14-23 Beatty no relation to Warren though / misprint p19

[Raphael Saltwood]

The Earl Beatty who left Washington in a huff (p 17)
was a big deal at the Battle of Jutland in WWI, Reed described him as “bulldog-faced”

The picture in Wikipedia doesn’t look very bulldoggy, but there’s a later one - 1927 - that does:

https://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-photo/earl-beatty-1927-david-richard-beatty-british-admiral-of-news-photo/1151170408?language=fr

The Washington Naval Treaty talks were in 1922, so his later face may have been well on the way by then, and the fleet limitations Reed mentions would have provoked a scowl on it.

Like Slothrop’s desk, Reed just seems to be tossing in a bunch of details (mention of Beatty comes at the end of a description of astrologer Evangeline Adam’s horoscope of America), but in terms of the grand conflict of the book I think the Naval Treaty Talks were a manifestation of Jes Grew - I think Jes Grew embraces peace and plenty and feeling good, none of which accords with militarism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty

Of course, career militarists such as Beatty and the Japanese “ultra-nationalists” Wikipedia cites as objecting to the treaty probably view that differently.

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P 19, “Jew Grew” - is this a typo? Probably?
 “1 must ponder the effect of Jew Grew on 2,000 years of civilization,” Calvinist editorial writers wonder aloud.